December 3, 2016

The Programming Historian is People

Adam Crymble

Heatmap of Contributors to The Programming Historian since launch. Map produced using Google Fusion Tables.

It sounds cheesy, but projects like the Programming Historian don’t exist without people freely giving their time, energy, and passion. Part of our sustainability plan has always been to ensure the project wasn’t reliant upon grant funding, and that means we’ve had to work hard to entice volunteers to sustain our efforts. To ensure our relationship was mutually beneficial rather than one-way, we’ve always tried to make sure contributors were properly credited for their efforts.

Since we launched in July 2012, we’ve done our best to keep track of everyone who has been part of the project. That includes authors, project team members, reviewers, and contributors to our blog. We’ve done a pretty good job of that (though I realise that we only have a list of reviewer names in lessons that eventually were accepted for publication and not those that didn’t make it through peer review).

Our growing list includes 112 people in at least 13 countries, on 3 continents. Most of them are associated with universities in one way or another. We have 73 universities represented amongst our contributors. Predominantly our contributors are academics, graduate students, or people working in university libraries, but there are also those who work for scholarly societies, freelance scholars, designers, consultants, and even someone working for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Heatmap of North American Contributors to The Programming Historian since launch. Map produced using Google Fusion Tables.

We owe a huge debt of thanks in particular to George Mason University (9 contributors), Western University (6), University of California Los Angeles (5), the British Library (3), Carleton University (3), Rice University (3), and the University of New Mexico (3).

33 of our contributors are women, and 79 are men. We’re committed to diversity, so we’ll continue to work towards bringing those numbers closer to parity. To help us do that, please encourage female colleagues, friends, and students to consider proposing a tutorial. If you are a woman with an idea for a lesson, we’d be very happy to hear from you.

Heatmap of European Contributors to *The Programming Historian* since launch. Map produced using Google Fusion Tables.

The breakdown of contributors by country:

The United States: 61

Canada: 19

The United Kingdom: 16

Belgium: 3

Colombia: 1

Finland: 1

France: 1

Germany: 1

Luxembourg: 1

Mexico: 1

Russia: 1

Spain: 1

Sweden: 1

The maps show that we’ve done a great job of bringing people together across North America and the UK, but there’s clearly more work to be done to ensure the Programming Historian becomes a truly global community. We hope that our new (and hard at work) Spanish language team will help us grow the project in Central and South America.

If anyone has African, Asian, or Australasian connections that would like to get involved, please encourage them to drop us a line.

A big thanks to everyone who has made this project possible thus far. The Programming Historian is people. We’re truly grateful of all of you.

Heatmap of British Contributors to The Programming Historian since launch. Map produced using Google Fusion Tables.

Our contributors to date:

Eli Pousson, Baltimore Heritage

James Baker, British Library

Nora McGregor, British Library

Andrew Dunning, British Library

Daniel Macfarlane, Carleton University

Shawn Graham, Carleton University

Robert Blades, Carleton University

Daniel van Strien, City University, London

Nabeel Siddiqui, College of William and Mary

Dennis Tenen, Columbia University

Grant Wythoff, Columbia University

Marten Düring, CVCE Luxembourg

Thomas J. Duck, Dalhousie University

Russell Alleen-Willems, Diachronic Design (Seattle)

Nick Pearce, Durham University

Victor Gayol, El Colegio de Michoacán, A.C. (CPI-CONACYT)

Sara Palmer, Emory University

Charlotte Tupman, Exeter University

Will Hanley, Florida State University

Ethan Miller, Freie Universität Berlin

Maria José Afanador-Llach, Fundación Histórica Neogranadina

Amanda Morton, George Mason University

Jeri Wieringa, George Mason University

Megan R. Brett, George Mason University

Spencer Roberts, George Mason University

Shiela Brennan, George Mason University

Erin N. Bush, George Mason University

Celeste Tưởng Vy Sharpe, George Mason University

Ben Hurwitz, George Mason University

Patrick Murray-John, George Mason University

Matthew Lincoln, Getty Research Institute

Boris Capitanu, HathiTrust Research Centre

Peter Organisciak, HathiTrust Research Centre

Seth Bernstein, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Jeanette Sewell, Houston Area Digital Archives

Jon Crump, Independent, Seattle

Scott Weingart, Indiana University

M. H. Beals, Loughborough University

Patrik Persson, Lund University

Stéfan Sinclair, McGill University

Kellen Kurschinski, McMaster University

John Fink, McMaster University

Ezra Brooks, Michigan State University

Jonathan Reeve, Modern Language Association

Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University

Abby Schreiber, Ohio State University

Aurélien Berra, Paris-Ouest University

John Russell, Penn State University

Amanda Visconti, Purdue University

Brandon Hawk, Rhode Island College

Caleb McDaniel, Rice University

Lisa Spiro, Rice University

Sean Morey, Rice University

Jamie Howe, Rutgers University

Joanna Swafford, SUNY

Rob Sieczkiewicz, Susquehanna Library

Chris Forster, Syracuse University

Laura Turner O’Hara, U.S. House of Representatives

Allison Hegel, UCLA

Carrie Sanders, UCLA

Miriam Posner, UCLA

Dave Shepard, UCLA

Michelle Moravec, UCLA

Finn Arne Jørgensen, Umea University

Antonio Rojas Castro, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Max De Wilde, Université libre de Bruxelles

Seth van Hooland, Université libre de Bruxelles

Tessa C Hauswedell, University College London

Eira Tansey, University of Cincinnatti

Vilja Hulden, University of Colorado Boulder

Jacob Greene, University of Florida

Jason Crider, University of Florida

Adam Crymble, University of Hertfordshire

Jane Winters, University of London

Jonathan Blaney, University of London

John Laudin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Paige Morgan, University of Miami

Elizabeth Venditto, University of Minnesota

Evan Taparata, University of Minnesota

Jason Heppler, University of Nebraska

Fred Gibbs, University of New Mexico

Guy McClellan, University of New Mexico

Justin Larsen, University of New Mexico

Jeff Bain-Conkin, University of Notre Dame

Sarah Simpkin, University of Ottawa

Nancy Lemay, University of Ottawa

Jim Clifford, University of Saskatchewan

Sharon Howard, University of Sheffield

Konrad Lawson, University of St Andrews

Heather Froehlich, University of Strathclyde

John Levin, University of Sussex

Kim Pham, University of Toronto

Jeremy Boggs, University of Virginia

Luke Bergmann, University of Washington

Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo

Ruben Verborgh, Universtiteit Gent

Ted Dawson, Vanderbilt University

Brandon Walsh, Washington and Lee University

Doug Knox, Washington University in St Louis

Peter Webster, Webster Research and Consulting

Alan MacEachern, Western University

Josh MacFadyen, Western University

Taryn Dewar, Western University

William J. Turkel, Western University

Mary Beth Start, Western University

Tim Compeau, Western University

Catherine DeRose, Yale University

Nick Ruest, York University

Patrick Burns, Affiliation Unknown (please let me know)

Eduardo Sanchez, Affiliation Unknown (please let me know)

Derek Price, Affiliation Unknown (please let me know)

Jeff Veitch, Affiliation Unknown (please let me know)

If I’ve missed you or made a mistake, let me know so I can update our records.

About the author

Adam Crymble is a senior lecturer of digital history at the University of
Hertfordshire.

The Programming Historian (ISSN: 2397-2068) is released under a CC-BY license.